DRUG USE, DELINQUENCY AND MEXICAN-AMERICAN YOUTH

美国西南部很快就会有一半的人口是西班牙裔。西语裔 西南城市低收入/高少数民族聚居区的青年 可能有非常高的吸毒率，也可能有非常高的吸毒率 少年犯。然而，没有关于吸毒与吸毒之间联系的数据。 以及城市西班牙裔青年的犯罪问题。这项研究将使用一所学校- 基于调查，探讨吸毒与青少年犯罪的关系 在一个典型的西南大城市。它将研究利率有何不同 跨年龄组，以及青少年犯罪和同龄人毒品关系如何 越轨，家庭关系，学校适应，对越轨的容忍， 愤怒、自尊和文化认同。它将决定 西班牙裔和少数族裔青年的路径分析是否不同，以及 这些差异与住宅区的类型有关。一种随机性的研究 被捕青年的样本将通过尿液分析确定最近使用毒品的情况 被捕的年轻人。调查问卷将允许比较尿液分析 结果与自我报告，并确定如何逮捕西班牙裔和非 少数族裔青年在毒品方面彼此不同，也不同于未被捕的青年 使用、犯罪和以上列出的心理社会特征。

Half the population of southwestern U.S. will soon be Hispanic. Hispanic youth in low income/high minority residential areas in southwestern cities can have very high rates of drug use, and there can be very high rates of delinquency. There are, however, no data on the links between drug use and delinquency for urban Hispanic youth. This study will use a school- based survey to explore the relationship between drug use and delinquency in a typical large southwestern city. It will examine how rates differ across age groups, and how delinquency and peer drug associations, peer deviance, family relationships, school adjustment, tolerance of deviance, anger, self-esteem, and cultural identification. It will determine whether path analyses differ for Hispanic and minority youth and whether these differences relate to type of residential area. Study of a random sample of arrested youth will determine, by urinalysis, recent drug use of arrested youth. Questionnaires will allow comparison of urinalysis results with self-report, and determine how arrested Hispanic and non- minority youth differ from each other and from non-arrested youth in drug use, delinquency, and the above listed psychosocial characteristics.